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That's Kaz Oshiro, who used to work for Anime Jungle in Little Tokyo. He's standing next to some cabinets, and they look like the place where you'd put your dishes and cups, but alas, they aren't real. They're paintings. How is that you ask? Easy. They're layer upon layer of geso, so thick that they've smoothed out the canvas and have become thick and shiny like a formica surface. He's part of the...
That’s Kaz Oshiro, who used to work for Anime Jungle in Little Tokyo. He’s standing next to some cabinets, and they look like the place where you’d put your dishes and cups, but alas, they aren’t real. They’re paintings. How is that you ask? Easy. They’re layer upon layer of geso, so thick that they’ve smoothed out the canvas and have become thick and shiny like a formica surface. He’s part of the One Way or Another Asian American Art Now at the Japanese American National Museum which just opened up this weekend in LA. Using upstairs and down, this show features work from an array of artists who are the up and comers of fine art, sometimes weird art across the country. This is the second stop of a touring art exhibition. No don’t dump trash in there! It doesn’t work, but it looks real. Here too. See the back? It’s a canvas, but from the front, it looks like a mini fridge. Won’t be makin’ bacon no more. Glenn Kaino’s taxidermy takes pieces of stuffed flesh and is put back together like patchwork. Ala Ebtekar mixes hip hop and sneaker culture with an Iranian Coffee joint. Even the sketchbooks have traditional patterns. Michael Arcega’s ark. Inside were different kinds of meat. Xavier Cha as featured in a past GR issue, way back for her topiary tagging. Weezer had a song about sweaters. These are sweaters all over the walls and the string linking them together. ceo Akemi and curator Karen H. Karen did a talk and said you should feel challenged. I did at some points, and I guess that means I’m on the right track.
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A big pack of folks came through the Incidental Nature exhibition at GR2 on saturday. It's been a little while since Robert Bellm has been to LA, he said 5 years, so his friends from Art Center came through, and bunch of others just to say congrats, and welcome back. One visitor even flew in from SF just to be there, meet Rob, and that's awesome people will do that. I think he bought a handful of...
A big pack of folks came through the Incidental Nature exhibition at GR2 on saturday. It’s been a little while since Robert Bellm has been to LA, he said 5 years, so his friends from Art Center came through, and bunch of others just to say congrats, and welcome back. One visitor even flew in from SF just to be there, meet Rob, and that’s awesome people will do that. I think he bought a handful of pieces. PCP couldn’t be here, and was missed. He’s a new dad, that’s how it goes. kozydan, well, they’re So Cal folks and they have a lot of friends, tons. They all came out, and I know they deserve the smiles they get from the people they make happy. That’s Robert Bellm in the middle. I think he had a good night. Like I said, he hasn’t been to LA in a while, so this was sort of like his homecoming. Jean Aw from Notcot. My hero. Michelle Borok who’ll you see blogging soon on the front page and Buff Monster, who’ll be showing at GRNY soon. Buff’s been great lately. I don’t know about the stash… I do wonder if this is the start of dirty sanchez. This was insane and a testament to their fans. Bunnyfish cookies? Amazing, and against the grain! Cookies make people happy and if you weren’t around, you would have missed out. This was a paparazzi moment. Cameras came out in force at this moment. A tattoo of bunnyfish. Neat clothing tag. She also has a Choe whale. Dan was hungry and this was some weird pasta. Glad I caught this moment, I doubt anyone else saw it. Dj Frosty from dublab… see kozy in the background eating. I’m pretty good at catching people at their worst. It was a good night, felt like old times. I hope that was the look that Michelle gave me when it was totally packed. If it was, then I know we were in the same place.
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Favre lost today, but had a stunning year. I'm assuming he's going to be back to do the Green Bay thing one more time. How did he just come back from being so bad? Anyway, that's Albert Reyes in the photo. He might not be Favre with the football, but he routed for Favre, since he's the last of the old schoolers still in the game. He doesn't like Tom Brady, since he said that when Brady was in high...